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[morpheus_xx]

The nature of "FallbackSource" is more like to show an "image is loading" until the final image is there. As mentioned before, it's intended that image allocation happens asynchronously so it doesn't block UI.

 

[ge2301]

Ok, then the fallback should be removed for the fan art area, because there is no need to see the poster popping up until the fan art is loaded. Only for the image and audio part another solution is necessary then, because the fallbacksource is used to load the "regular" image.

 

[morpheus_xx]

I had the idea before that the fanart service could deliver a fallback image itself. But the problem with this approach is, that the skin neutral Server plugin doesn't have any skin dependent resources.

Another idea could be to extend fanartsource itself with a fallback image source. It could be used in case where the request could not find an image. So in principle moving fallback logic from Image to FanArtImageSource. In this case you could control the fallback image from xaml.

 

[MJGraf]

While we are at it: what you explain about fallback source, Matthias, sounds to me like a 'wait cursor source'. Wouldn't it make sense to have three possible image sources then:
1. Wait Cursor - displayed immediately from a static file in the skin (something not very prominent as in grid view there may be 20 or so wait cursors visible at the same time)
2. In the mean time we try to fetch the 'intended image source'
3. As soon as it is clear that 2. is not available, we show the fallback source. IMHO this should also be a static file in the skin to make sure we have an image in any case no matter what. Different 'priorities' of 'real' images should be decided by the server during 2.
It just came to my mind because (at least for now) 2. still may take a while in certain circumstances (such as when caches are generated). That way we (and the user) can actually see when it is clear that there is definitely no fanart available.
Does that make sense?

 

[morpheus_xx]

Btw, this was a topic with Albert already long time before: he mentioned that the current implementation of Source / FallbackSource is to specific. A better approach would be to use only "Source" and implement a class with specific handling only there.

Such class could then do as @MJGraf explained:

1. "Loading..." image
2. Intended image
3. or fallback image

This approach is cleaner and doesn't require implementation in Image class, but in an actual ImageSource.

 

[ge2301]

1. Wait Cursor - displayed immediately from a static file in the skin (something not very prominent as in grid view there may be 20 or so wait cursors visible at the same time)

I agree with that. It should be not so dominant, because this would result again in a flickering effect when scrolling through the list.
It could be a small image with low opacity, which is only visible for user, if the loading time is quite long. The symbol could be a sand clock or something, so the user can also understand, that there might be a loading problem

 

[MJGraf]

The symbol should be a sand clock or something

Yeah or a "moving circle" (I was just restarting my iPhone and saw this circle while the iPhone was "shutting down" - consisting of lines that makes it look a bit like an old analog watch). If I remember correctly, we already have such as moving circle as wait cursor. For this purpose it just needs to be smaller and not as bold as the "main" wait cursor.

 

[morpheus_xx]

If I remember correctly, we already have such as moving circle as wait cursor. For this purpose it just needs to be smaller and not as bold as the "main" wait cursor.

We don't support animated image formats, unfortunately... All animations are done by xaml objects which can't be used as image source.

So I'd go for @ge2301 's proposal.

But for now it's only a conception, someone needs to recode image sources

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.
I just found a small glitch in SlimTV Skin...If you chooser "Big List", the text is too far to the right and leaves the frame.

Hope this is not due to my modifications...

 

[ge2301]

e this is not due to my modifications...

Looks like you are using the old version. I have adapted the style in that way it is fitting to BlueVision, means only focused posters are shown.
Have you retried downloading the skin for TV?
Will check it later.